Dreamweaver question

[kel2000]

Hi gang,
I'm a advanced beginner in HTML and have a question about a line of code in my Dreamweaver pages.
Someone else built the site I'm working on, and I"m tasked with fixing it.
Anyway, many pages have this line several times:

<!-- fwtable fwsrc="others2.png" fwbase="others.jpg" fwstyle="Dreamweaver" fwdocid = "781037760" fwnested="0" -->

Would someone explain to me what this means? A Google search found nothing useful

Thanks,000,000

[druelar]

I am not an expert on this forum but thought I might chime in (Hope its OK with the TSF experts here...)

I tried to break that down and research the tags and found a few things out that might get you started.

fwtable fwsrc - Google on this part gives me links that reference Fireworks. A link that comes up talks about popup menues and has that type of code in it.

So I would say you should research each tag within Macromedia fireworks to see what they are and what they do.

Good Luck.

Drue

[Redcore]

Yes, fw = Macromedia (now Adobe) Fireworks.

Basically it's just the HTML code that FireWorks outputs when you save something as a web page. Unfortunately, the code that FW produces isn't always the cleanest/most efficient. I typically build layouts with Photoshop, but I don't use the HTML it outputs either...I always recompile the layout with Dreamweaver.

The brackets around it are probably even more confusing than the "fw-" stuff within it. That's Server Side Include (SSI) code. It's server-side, so your server has to support SSI...which most do. Here's a small tutorial site that explains SSI pretty well (and short):
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/ssi

If the pages are functioning okay and recompiling them isn't worth it for you, it's fine to just leave them. I don't use SSI (personal taste) but it's perfectly fine. However if you can't fix what is going wrong and recompiling the layout is acceptable to you, that's probably what I would do as well. I'm a little OCD though...and that extra crap just nags at me haha :)

[kel2000]

Thanks a million for your replies. that really helps.

One other thing I forgot to mention, is that the .png and .jpg files referenced in the code don't exist. I've searched the entire tree for them and they are nowhere to be found.

shouldn't this affect the outcome somehow?

- k -

[Redcore]

The guy who made it might have just removed the picture without removing the code. Backup the document, remove that code, and check out how it looks online. If everything still looks fine, than it's safe to continue on without that piece of code.

[kel2000]

Originally Posted by Redcore

The guy who made it might have just removed the picture without removing the code. Backup the document, remove that code, and check out how it looks online. If everything still looks fine, than it's safe to continue on without that piece of code.

thanks a million. I will do and report back

- k -